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ABLUTION, ISLAMIC
I. K. Poonawala
(vożūʾ), the minor ritual purification performed before prayers.
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ABLUTION, ZOROASTRIAN
Cross-Reference
See PADYĀB.
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ABNĀʾ
C. E. Bosworth
"sons," term for the offspring of Persian soldiers and officials in the Yemen and of Arab mothers.
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ABOULITES
C. J. Brunner
satrap of Susiana under Darius III, at the time of the Achaemenid collapse.
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ABRADATAS
C. J. Brunner
a fictional king of Susa in Xenophon’s fictional, didactic life of Cyrus (Cyropaedia, books 5-7).
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ABRAHAM
Cross-Reference
See EBRĀHĪM.
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ABRAHAM OF CRETE
George A. Bournoutian
(Kretatsʾi; b. Kandia, Crete, ?- d. Ejmiatsin, 18 April 1737), a leader of the Armenian Church and the author of a chronicle about Nāder Shah Afšār.
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ABRAHAM OF EREVAN
George A. Bournoutian
the author of a history of the wars in Armenian at the time of Nāder Shah Afšār.
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ABRAHAM OF KAŠKAR
Florence Jullien
Christian monk of the 6th century CE, regarded as father of the monks in the Orient.
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ABRAHAMIAN, ROUBEN
Jennifer Manoukian
Armenian Iranist, linguist, and translator. One of the first teachers of Pahlavi language at University of Tehran.